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Beautiful Perhaps

by The Noise Who Runs

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The blistering first single from the forthcoming album - PRETERETROSPECTIVE.

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Beautiful Perhaps

Heaven needs water
To short out the nausea
And to dampen the token contempt
Heaven needs water
The party is over
Hung, drawn and quartered and toxic with cul-de-sac intent

The narrative seeks redemption
But it’s a picture book version, censored to fiction as the demons pull us apart
The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps
The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful
Perhaps

I translate my pain down
A little structure and a little shape now
A record needle in a defective groove
My pain becomes language
An echo of disadvantage
The art of detachment in an open wound

The scars will heal to perfection
But it’s a picture book version, censored to fiction as the demons pull us apart
The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps
The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful
Perhaps

Heaven needs water
But kindness is in short order
Just a lotus flower in the mud
Heaven sees misery
With outraged but hollow sympathy
And happiness is a single raindrop swallowed in the wretched flood

The fairytale of salvation
It’s just a picture book version, senseless, bewildered, as the demons pull us apart
The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps
The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps
The truth isn’t pretty

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released February 14, 2023
Words and Music by Ian Pickering. Recorded, engineered and produced by Claudio Spural with additonal production, mixing and mastering by Colin Cameron.

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The Noise Who Runs Lille, France

Anglo-French dark electronic rock and pop with heavy influences of indie, EDM and trip hop.
Formed in 2019 by Sneaker Pimps’ lyricist Ian Pickering along with guitarist Felipe Goes.

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